[Applause]
my name is combo I painted on
walls it’s my job
very often when I introduce myself
this way some people seeing
my face I wonder if I am
building painter actually I ‘m doing the
street art he
that is, take off I do
frescoes in the street and that since
my adolescence
that means that now 90% of my
work is already gone it’s nature
even urban art than being ephemeral
so what are we leaving behind
when working on the street when
we talk about heritage we often talk about
what we receive and what we receive
leave it to yours in my family
there were no artists in any case
it’s because they left me as
culture I was taught mostly to be
curious to put things in question
and love justice actually has it I do not
came later that I came
by the school is very simply by
history books all these pictures
on these photos these frescoes his
paintings fascinated me being younger
so that after in my studies
higher my first year actually my
only year at bozar my teachers
ask me the question and ask me
asked especially you actually explain to me
that if I did not understand a work
art I did not have the keys to
reading goes somehow it’s
that I lacked culture it was my
fault so much that as soon as I started
to do my first collages
I wanted to use my own readings
that is to say the culture that is
mine the pictures with which I have
grown up actually it’s the culture my
generation
what I wanted to do is that I
wanted to reclaim these images I
wanted to divert them
I thought that in fact it could
give something different
and then too bad if you do not like to
older but very quickly I understood
that going to the street we could not
to have betrayed in the street had a range
more symbolic it imposed itself on me
very quickly when I started to
work I ask myself the question what is
that’s what the public if not front
where we move we are in
movement
we are pedestrians actually so well
that when one wants to become an actor in
the public space that catherine right to
do and what not to have a
authorization of the prefecture for
manifest in France and even I will
to tell you a little thing is that the om
is a bit weird for us the seven
artists and for graffiti us and
not just forbidden to degrade a property
public or private actually what we
forbidden these two lines to write that this
is the bomb with chalk so well that
we are forbidden to express ourselves
so when I went to the street I
I was told that I actually took the
speech and by speaking I
took power so well that in fact at
less street art it became a kind
of coup
sodden armor and daily so I
told me that my job must be a
little more committed than I had to be
take the floor again vis-à-vis those
who speak every day
in my TV in my radio
all these people who actually go
use french symbols
the French lexicon to bring us to
a vision of their society makes
a vision that is theirs all these
people who use to length of
oxymoron day as tolerance
zero as equal opportunities
all those people who are going
invert the ad’s no words with
adjectives transforming some
Muslims are certain in French of
some confessions not quote them
telltale slip so transforming them
in fact again the new Muslims
de france jews de france is celebrating
with their novlangue transforms
company making more and more to
so come back all these people
I wanted to be able to express myself
report to them and take and take
also the word is a little bit of a
way that tells us what all
days but unfortunately that’s not enough
to become and tell his truth for
to change things
it’s not enough to come and do the
moral one must also have some kind of
collusion with people and what’s
better than humor
what better than to use images
known to all to put a foot in
the door
so I thought I could
maybe turn me to images
that we have always been used to see if
although we do not even have the spirit of
the es2 the critics and put them back
in question the images of khartoum
film images press images
old art images and after having
did that what you see I told myself
that I could try to
to persuade after had after trying
to convince
I will give you an example in fact
I started doing this kind of
misappropriation
I put ko riou by mohamed ali
I made married master yoda
I even showed the coming out of tintin
haddock and I made dances on
why m6 so here after doing some
funny things
after having as I said persuaded
maybe it was time to
to convince
I thought maybe he was
time to say something
unpleasant
a bit like with you today in
February 2000 case 2015 I was assaulted
in fact it was in Paris in the 2nd
borough
I was painting a painting
here I was painting the word coexist in
which I had to mix the symbols
religious
the Christian cross the star of david and
growing Muslim and I had it
accompanied by a collage this collage is
myself actually it was me with a
beard and jellaba grimaced as a kind
caricature of Muslims and
people who assaulted me do not have
liked this message she was asking me the
withdraw me I actually left it was
just after right after the attacks
charlie hebdo
a few days later and I wanted
spread a different different message
from the one we saw every day at
the TV a message that was going to this
we call it living together a little
more love a little more tolerance
in any case, it’s what it is
that I wanted to tell but but it did not
not prevented her from preventing the lady from
in a hurry and
I quickly received a lot of messages
of support
a lot of messages from all over
avalanche of love
so that pushed me that pushes to
continue for months
for years this work there and
it was a rather special period
in France at the level of culture we had
a kind of self-censorship that is created in
everybody
that is, pieces of
programs of theater programs
was deprogrammed artists see
their vandalized works in the street
other sailboats their offers censored by
of the museums that had announced them and
that’s normal we can understand that they
were afraid of reprisals or
of attacks against me I continued
and continue and put my message
everywhere I went wherever it was
in paris it’s in Tunis it’s even
Tel Aviv
I think there is a concern about
images it works here I wanted I
will spread a message of love actually
I wanted to beat a little against everything
obscurantism hand they be from
everywhere and I wanted to continue to
to share it wherever I went but
when I painted another co exist
evry sap has prevented people from
want to come again despite that I’m
I’m not arrested I continued I
met many people
I met activists I have to
counter associations I met
journalists
I even met with policies and
with them I share is always my
message I wanted to share at most
large number
some way but again
when I made a coexist to
teal that does not stop me again
group of people becomes aggression
but I continued I continued I
am so eager to try to
paint on all the symbols that are
ours who were a little caught up in
hostage by all
all extremisms of any edge I
wanted to reclaim me again
not let them not leave them
in the hands and that obviously it does not
more
and this painting actually we are
the example since among all others
among many others
she was vandalized that pushed them a
little to do the same thing they have
done with other artists
but I tell you all that in fact I
tells all these negative things and
it’s not it’s not the most important
is that the most important thing is that
during that time I received a lot
support messages
it did not stop and all these
people she pushes me to continue
in my voice a pushed to not
give up and that voice pushed me to
now go to have works that
are exhibited in museums
whether it’s here in paris at the institute of
Arab world at the immigration museum or
more recently at the art museum
modern münster in germany
so that there are some of my
works that are in collections
museums you even bought by cities
that voice also pushed me to be
published in books not only
art books but also books
of civic education history
so that students currently
do their homework on the co exist
not only also about my work on
migrants on secularism and the
personally me it’s my biggest
pride
I’m really sorry to give them
more work but in any case me that
makes me happy
I will also my collages I have them
found in different media and from
the press in the tv names of the web and that
could go about any subject that
could be on living together that
could be sure of the demonstrations
workers I even saw a candidate for
the last presidential use my
images in his campaign clip
official campaign without asking me to
my authorization
there was also this movie coexist which
was released last December
last year 2017 I speak to you
not because this film is inspired by me
it’s not inspired by my work
nor of what I actually tell what
interested me is that he was talking
same thing as me you want to laugh
of the same thing the same theme is
in fact I do not tell you what he
happened an incredible thing to his
exit it’s absolutely nothing nothing
no controversy
no slippage no violent act towards
the film is to say that what happens
it’s two years ago left
dangerous all of a sudden they income
normal and for me this is the proof
we did the job we did
that we had pacified the debate a little
that we had brought back the speech to the
normal Thursday us because obviously
I am not the only one on this earth to
work on these themes
there are many people
independent there are latif labeled
athens to mention that there are
a lot of activists associations there
to coexist and uejf sos racism I
could spend my day enumerate
a lot of people who are fighting all
the days and who are really
incredible but obviously that I am
not I am I am not good and I am
not silly I know very well that the world
is not all pink
the problem is not solved but in
anyway there is a truth that which is
present in front of me is that now
I know that spare people and that
people are changing the world
so is that what I
will leave behind me
is that what I’m going to leave
to my children to yours is that when
they will think of the past
that means in our day when they
go to cancer their story is this
that they will have images that will
theirs appears in the head as the
freedom guiding the people of delacroix
or guernica de picasso
maybe even the cartier photos
bresson and maybe I dare to hope
some of my paintings thank you
[Applause]
my name is combo I painted on
walls it’s my job
very often when I introduce myself
this way some people seeing
my face I wonder if I am
building painter actually I ‘m doing the
street art he
that is, take off I do
frescoes in the street and that since
my adolescence
that means that now 90% of my
work is already gone it’s nature
even urban art than being ephemeral
so what are we leaving behind
when working on the street when
we talk about heritage we often talk about
what we receive and what we receive
leave it to yours in my family
there were no artists in any case
it’s because they left me as
culture I was taught mostly to be
curious to put things in question
and love justice actually has it I do not
came later that I came
by the school is very simply by
history books all these pictures
on these photos these frescoes his
paintings fascinated me being younger
so that after in my studies
higher my first year actually my
only year at bozar my teachers
ask me the question and ask me
asked especially you actually explain to me
that if I did not understand a work
art I did not have the keys to
reading goes somehow it’s
that I lacked culture it was my
fault so much that as soon as I started
to do my first collages
I wanted to use my own readings
that is to say the culture that is
mine the pictures with which I have
grown up actually it’s the culture my
generation
what I wanted to do is that I
wanted to reclaim these images I
wanted to divert them
I thought that in fact it could
give something different
and then too bad if you do not like to
older but very quickly I understood
that going to the street we could not
to have betrayed in the street had a range
more symbolic it imposed itself on me
very quickly when I started to
work I ask myself the question what is
that’s what the public if not front
where we move we are in
movement
we are pedestrians actually so well
that when one wants to become an actor in
the public space that catherine right to
do and what not to have a
authorization of the prefecture for
manifest in France and even I will
to tell you a little thing is that the om
is a bit weird for us the seven
artists and for graffiti us and
not just forbidden to degrade a property
public or private actually what we
forbidden these two lines to write that this
is the bomb with chalk so well that
we are forbidden to express ourselves
so when I went to the street I
I was told that I actually took the
speech and by speaking I
took power so well that in fact at
less street art it became a kind
of coup
sodden armor and daily so I
told me that my job must be a
little more committed than I had to be
take the floor again vis-à-vis those
who speak every day
in my TV in my radio
all these people who actually go
use french symbols
the French lexicon to bring us to
a vision of their society makes
a vision that is theirs all these
people who use to length of
oxymoron day as tolerance
zero as equal opportunities
all those people who are going
invert the ad’s no words with
adjectives transforming some
Muslims are certain in French of
some confessions not quote them
telltale slip so transforming them
in fact again the new Muslims
de france jews de france is celebrating
with their novlangue transforms
company making more and more to
so come back all these people
I wanted to be able to express myself
report to them and take and take
also the word is a little bit of a
way that tells us what all
days but unfortunately that’s not enough
to become and tell his truth for
to change things
it’s not enough to come and do the
moral one must also have some kind of
collusion with people and what’s
better than humor
what better than to use images
known to all to put a foot in
the door
so I thought I could
maybe turn me to images
that we have always been used to see if
although we do not even have the spirit of
the es2 the critics and put them back
in question the images of khartoum
film images press images
old art images and after having
did that what you see I told myself
that I could try to
to persuade after had after trying
to convince
I will give you an example in fact
I started doing this kind of
misappropriation
I put ko riou by mohamed ali
I made married master yoda
I even showed the coming out of tintin
haddock and I made dances on
why m6 so here after doing some
funny things
after having as I said persuaded
maybe it was time to
to convince
I thought maybe he was
time to say something
unpleasant
a bit like with you today in
February 2000 case 2015 I was assaulted
in fact it was in Paris in the 2nd
borough
I was painting a painting
here I was painting the word coexist in
which I had to mix the symbols
religious
the Christian cross the star of david and
growing Muslim and I had it
accompanied by a collage this collage is
myself actually it was me with a
beard and jellaba grimaced as a kind
caricature of Muslims and
people who assaulted me do not have
liked this message she was asking me the
withdraw me I actually left it was
just after right after the attacks
charlie hebdo
a few days later and I wanted
spread a different different message
from the one we saw every day at
the TV a message that was going to this
we call it living together a little
more love a little more tolerance
in any case, it’s what it is
that I wanted to tell but but it did not
not prevented her from preventing the lady from
in a hurry and
I quickly received a lot of messages
of support
a lot of messages from all over
avalanche of love
so that pushed me that pushes to
continue for months
for years this work there and
it was a rather special period
in France at the level of culture we had
a kind of self-censorship that is created in
everybody
that is, pieces of
programs of theater programs
was deprogrammed artists see
their vandalized works in the street
other sailboats their offers censored by
of the museums that had announced them and
that’s normal we can understand that they
were afraid of reprisals or
of attacks against me I continued
and continue and put my message
everywhere I went wherever it was
in paris it’s in Tunis it’s even
Tel Aviv
I think there is a concern about
images it works here I wanted I
will spread a message of love actually
I wanted to beat a little against everything
obscurantism hand they be from
everywhere and I wanted to continue to
to share it wherever I went but
when I painted another co exist
evry sap has prevented people from
want to come again despite that I’m
I’m not arrested I continued I
met many people
I met activists I have to
counter associations I met
journalists
I even met with policies and
with them I share is always my
message I wanted to share at most
large number
some way but again
when I made a coexist to
teal that does not stop me again
group of people becomes aggression
but I continued I continued I
am so eager to try to
paint on all the symbols that are
ours who were a little caught up in
hostage by all
all extremisms of any edge I
wanted to reclaim me again
not let them not leave them
in the hands and that obviously it does not
more
and this painting actually we are
the example since among all others
among many others
she was vandalized that pushed them a
little to do the same thing they have
done with other artists
but I tell you all that in fact I
tells all these negative things and
it’s not it’s not the most important
is that the most important thing is that
during that time I received a lot
support messages
it did not stop and all these
people she pushes me to continue
in my voice a pushed to not
give up and that voice pushed me to
now go to have works that
are exhibited in museums
whether it’s here in paris at the institute of
Arab world at the immigration museum or
more recently at the art museum
modern münster in germany
so that there are some of my
works that are in collections
museums you even bought by cities
that voice also pushed me to be
published in books not only
art books but also books
of civic education history
so that students currently
do their homework on the co exist
not only also about my work on
migrants on secularism and the
personally me it’s my biggest
pride
I’m really sorry to give them
more work but in any case me that
makes me happy
I will also my collages I have them
found in different media and from
the press in the tv names of the web and that
could go about any subject that
could be on living together that
could be sure of the demonstrations
workers I even saw a candidate for
the last presidential use my
images in his campaign clip
official campaign without asking me to
my authorization
there was also this movie coexist which
was released last December
last year 2017 I speak to you
not because this film is inspired by me
it’s not inspired by my work
nor of what I actually tell what
interested me is that he was talking
same thing as me you want to laugh
of the same thing the same theme is
in fact I do not tell you what he
happened an incredible thing to his
exit it’s absolutely nothing nothing
no controversy
no slippage no violent act towards
the film is to say that what happens
it’s two years ago left
dangerous all of a sudden they income
normal and for me this is the proof
we did the job we did
that we had pacified the debate a little
that we had brought back the speech to the
normal Thursday us because obviously
I am not the only one on this earth to
work on these themes
there are many people
independent there are latif labeled
athens to mention that there are
a lot of activists associations there
to coexist and uejf sos racism I
could spend my day enumerate
a lot of people who are fighting all
the days and who are really
incredible but obviously that I am
not I am I am not good and I am
not silly I know very well that the world
is not all pink
the problem is not solved but in
anyway there is a truth that which is
present in front of me is that now
I know that spare people and that
people are changing the world
so is that what I
will leave behind me
is that what I’m going to leave
to my children to yours is that when
they will think of the past
that means in our day when they
go to cancer their story is this
that they will have images that will
theirs appears in the head as the
freedom guiding the people of delacroix
or guernica de picasso
maybe even the cartier photos
bresson and maybe I dare to hope
some of my paintings thank you
[Applause]
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